Re: colord dependancy on polkit-gobject-1 >= 0.103

[Pascal de Bruijn <pmjdebruijn pcode nl>]

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com> wrote:
> On 31 December 2011 17:37, Pascal de Bruijn <pmjdebruijn pcode nl> wrote:
>> For the time being I just reversed that single patch myself, before
>> running make dist, which is a bit of a kludge, since the tarball
>> version number isn't entirely accurate anymore...
>
> Right, but makes sense I guess.
>
>> However everything does seems to build/work then. So I just a new
>> colord/gcm to my PPA... Jimmac's art rocks BTW.
>
> Yup, although a lot of the work was Lapo.
>
>> That said, if any future patches are going to depend on the above
>> commit, I'm going to be in a world of pain support newer GCM versions
>> on Ubuntu Oneiric.
>
> No, the polkit stuff is just for the non-run-as-root stuff the Ubuntu
> security guys insisted on. It seems odd the same guys are not pushing
> the newer polkit into the distro as a priority.

Well that does make sense...

Though the next release has 0.103, it's just not being backported...
I'd fear breaking anything too...

Regards,
Pascal de Bruijn